Merlin’s Post

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Every time you improve the ability of a pilot to control an aircraft, you also improve his or her ability to be thinking productively about other things. We're building take off to touchdown autonomy, so that will eventually cover everything from flight planning to air traffic control communications. The whole Merlin pilot system is modular. It can be used on any plane and for any mission or flights or active runways or access to remote areas, revolutionizing cargo transport and the hands of the military. It'll keep human pilots out of harm's way. There's a common misconception that AI will replace pilots. Pilots will still be on board your commercial flights, they'll just be more focused on high value tasks and readiness. We can take what humans do best, which is thinking about safety, thinking about flight planning, thinking about mission planning, and backing them up with things that autonomy does best, which is taking in sensor data, understanding the world around it, and executing perfectly on those flights, allowing the human to be able to go think at a higher level about the mission execution. However, we take off. With conventional autopilot, you can program a departure, you can program waypoints to fly you along. You're stepping through each one of those phases, authorizing, authorizing, authorizing as you going through. What makes the Merlin pilot unique is you do the whole plan beginning to end and you hit go. Being able to go change the way that humans interact with the sky is tremendously important. That's why we partnered with the regulators from day one to build autonomous solutions that are not just innovative, but are first and foremost safe and are ultimately acceptable or the regulator to get out into commercial service. That's cool. Walk Fly really means to me is disciplined approach to building and ultimately releasing this autonomous technology. The last 100 years access to the skies been built around a human pilot plus an airplane. The next 100 years of aviation is humans partnering hand in hand with autonomy to be able to go create a safer and more accessible sky.